{"id":6199,"date":"2020-03-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2020-03-23T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T21:16:14","slug":"so-let-me-tell-you-about-my-st-paddys-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/so-let-me-tell-you-about-my-st-paddys-day\/","title":{"rendered":"SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY ST. PADDY\u2019S DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, being that I\u2019m in semi-voluntary \u201cself-isolation\u201d at home and my lovely bride, the Evil Princess, is a thousand or so miles away taking care of her sick mom (NOT COVID-19, thank God), I was left to my own devices this last St. Patrick\u2019s day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are\ntraditions to be observed, at least on my end. My name notwithstanding, I\u2019m a\nquarter Irish on me mum\u2019s side;  sure an\u2019\nbegorrah, her mother came to this country (Boston) from County Cork in the\nearly 20th<\/sup> Century, where she met and married my maternal\ngrandfather.  I promised my mother, who\npassed in 1975, that I\u2019d always \u201cwear the green\u201d on Saint Patrick\u2019s Day, and\nobserve the holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never\nbeen so glad to have a shooting range on my own property as now, during the\ntime of Corona virus lockdown.  How to\ncommemorate the good Saint driving the snakes out of Ireland?  I haven\u2019t had to shoot one on my property in more\nthan a decade.  That time I discovered\nthat a 125 grain Speer Gold Dot .357 SIG round going 1430 feet per second from\nmy Glock 31 pistol will vaporize the head of a water moccasin that is coming\nstraight at you in your own damn carport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\ncouldn\u2019t drive a snake out of Ireland, I could damn well drive a Python to my\nshooting range. The Python I drove there was a sample of the newly resurrected\nColt Python .357Magnum revolver from Colt. \nThe oldest Colt Python of the ones in my collection is a four-inch\nbarrel example with the incredibly lovely Royal Blue finish, produced in the\nmid-1970s and one of the very few guns I had occasion to carry on all three of\nthe police departments I worked for in 43 years as sworn LE.  The new one compares surprisingly well to the\nold classic Pythons, even though it\u2019s made in modern CNC and MIM fashion, and\nnot lovingly hand-built by Colt\u2019s most expert craftsmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019re not acquainted with the iconic original Colt Python, check out the three-part feature I did on it<\/a> forty-some\u00a0 years ago for American Handgunner magazine, here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new,\ncloned Python from its original maker is something of an allegory to what I\nthink will be the predictable aftermath of the current pandemic crisis:  Things won\u2019t be exactly <\/em>what they were before, but hopefully, they\u2019ll come close\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, being that I\u2019m in semi-voluntary \u201cself-isolation\u201d at home and my lovely bride, the Evil Princess, is a thousand or so miles away taking care of her sick mom (NOT COVID-19, thank God), I was left to my own devices this last St. Patrick\u2019s day. There are traditions to be observed, at least on my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}